While sitting on the Lausanne docks in a cool wind, watching the sun set over the French Alps, and eating a hunk of tasty Gruyere cheese, I thought about how awesome life is. Later I realized I shouldn't have eaten the *entire* hunk of cheese.
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wow, what a great shot!!! great composition, good light/texture. what kind of camera/setting?
Thank you for the compliments, but nature did the hard work. The camera is my trusty old Canon SD450. I should really get a new camera. The settings were just the basic settings, no mucking around.
Hi-res photos are at:
http://web.mit.edu/fishburn/www/harbor/
I wish I'd gotten a better shot of the statue (see the earlier high-res shots).
ok you are obsessed about that statue. went to your site and you got like ten shots of that statue from every angle.
i see a few other shots from the place but the one you put up is great. i think you can push it by bring out the foreground more.
if you upgrade, just get the canon rebel and a wide angle lens. you do a lot of architecture/landscape so the wide angle makes sense.
btw, are there any people around or you waited forever? haven't seen any faces in any of your shots.
Re: obsessed with statue, I think photography is like any other craft. Taking the most photographs means producing the best photograph.
I agree about the wide angle lens and upgrade. I do love the people-less shots. I'm a poor graduate student now (don't want to touch any of my savings), so it might be a while before I upgrade. I'll dig up the panaromic shots of NM and send them to you.
Re: lack of people, there weren't too many people around. The holiday season in Europe just ended and school just started, so relatively few people were around. Ouchy (the docks in Lausanne) is very, very touristy. There were two or three groups of people walking around the IOC, so I waited a few times for good shots of the IOC statues.
Oh, it was also cold and windy. The giant "C" statue is actually a weather vane. Because of the mountains there are four extremely common directions of wind in Lausanne. These common directions are actually named! By knowing the orientation of the "C" you can figure out which wind is dominant. I didn't get a good shot of the statues which depict the "C" orientation and wind names.
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